Event

EXTRAORDINARY CANADIANS: In conversation with VINCENT LAM, CHARLES FORAN and ANDRÉ PRATTE

Wednesday, March 30, 2011 18:00to20:00
Donald E. Armstrong Building 3420 rue McTavish, Montreal, QC, H3A 3L1, CA

The McGill University Bookstore and Penguin Books are pleased to present bestselling authors Charles Foran, Vincent Lam, and André Pratte in a lively conversation, discussing their new biographies of Maurice Richard, Tommy Douglas, and Wilfrid Laurier. The discussion will be followed by a question period and book signing.

Refreshments will be served.

McGill University Bookstore (3420 McTavish), 3rd floor;  Wednesday, March 30  -  6:00-8:00 PM  -  FREE PUBLIC EVENT.

Parking in the area is limited. For more information or inquires about deals on underground parking nearby, please call Anna Stein at 514-398-3222.

 

Charles Foran is a writer of novels, non-fiction, and journalism. He has published eight books, including the multi-award-winning The Last House of Ulster. Though raised in Toronto, he was reared, thanks to a French-Canadian mother, on the Montreal Canadiens. Maurice Richard, who retired from hockey the same year Foran was born, was mistaken by the boy for a local saint, so reverential were the evocations of his name among extended family members. Foran lives with his family in Peterborough, Ontario.

Dr. Vincent Lam is from the expatriate Chinese community of Vietnam. Trained in Toronto, he is an emergency physician and a lecturer at the University of Toronto. His first book, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, won the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Lam is the co-author of The Flu Pandemic and You, which received an award from the American Medical Writers Association in 2007. He and his family live in Toronto.

André Pratte has covered politics for most of his 30-year career as a reporter, columnist, and editor. He has written five books on politics and the media, including Charest: His Life and Politics. Chief editorial writer for the La Presse newspaper, he lives with his family in Montreal.

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